Mathematical proof dates back at least to Euclid in 300 BCE, and yet little is known about what happens in the mind when ...

The Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) offers an intensive introduction to complex behavior in mathematical, physical, living, and social systems. Spanning four weeks, CSSS ...

SFI President David Krakauer, and SFI Professors Jessica Flack and Melanie Mitchell, will lead an interactive discussion on Emergent Engineering for members of ACtioN and SFI's research community.

This event is closed to the public. How do mathematicians think? What are the mental and social processes at work when a researcher chooses a theorem, searches for a proof, brainstorms with colleagues ...

This event is closed to the public. On average, English speakers utter around 16,000 words per day, most of it in interactions with other people. Yet, the language sciences have predominately ...

Global markets are complex systems, shaped by feedback loops, sudden shocks, and adaptive behavior that rarely follow textbook rules and that can’t be captured by neat equations. At its core, ...

In 2022, SFI donor Hank Schuyler launched an innovative fund that supports exploratory, boundary-breaking science among SFI’s postdoctoral fellows. Honoring Hank’s late wife, the Lou Schuyler Seed ...

“. . . the true heir to Melville and Faulkner." —Harold Bloom, literary critic. "Today feels to me like a terrible disaster where many of us lost a good friend, the Santa Fe Institute lost one of its ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

In anticipation of Cormac McCarthy’s newest books, “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” (Knopf, 2022), former SFI Miller Scholar Laurence Gonzales recollects McCarthy’s long and ongoing friendship with ...

Every computing system, biological or synthetic, from cells to brains to laptops, has a cost. This isn’t the price, which is easy to discern, but an energy cost connected to the work required to run a ...